It is the simplest of the muhurta systems, and it asks two things and nothing else: what day of the week it is, and when the sun rose and set where you are. Everything below follows from those two numbers, which is why this page spends most of its time on the second one.
Today, where you are
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Delhi, Sunday 11 October 2026. Sunrise 06:20, sunset 17:56. All times local to Delhi.
Day, sunrise to sunset
| Period | From | To | Traditionally |
|---|---|---|---|
| Udveg उद्वेग | 06:20 | 07:47 | avoided |
| Char चर | 07:47 | 09:14 | neutral, traditionally used for travel |
| Labh लाभ | 09:14 | 10:41 | favourable, named for gain |
| Amrit अमृत | 10:41 | 12:08 | the most favourable of the eight |
| Kaal काल | 12:08 | 13:35 | avoided |
| Shubh शुभ | 13:35 | 15:02 | favourable |
| Rog रोग | 15:02 | 16:29 | avoided |
| Udveg उद्वेग | 16:29 | 17:56 | avoided |
Night, sunset to the next sunrise
| Period | From | To | Traditionally |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shubh शुभ | 17:56 | 19:29 | favourable |
| Amrit अमृत | 19:29 | 21:02 | the most favourable of the eight |
| Char चर | 21:02 | 22:35 | neutral, traditionally used for travel |
| Rog रोग | 22:35 | 00:08 | avoided |
| Kaal काल | 00:08 | 01:41 | avoided |
| Labh लाभ | 01:41 | 03:14 | favourable, named for gain |
| Udveg उद्वेग | 03:14 | 04:47 | avoided |
| Shubh शुभ | 04:47 | 06:20 | favourable |
Computed from sunrise and sunset at 28.6139, 77.2090, by the same Swiss Ephemeris described on the methodology page.
How the eight are built
Divide daylight by eight, and the night from sunset to the next sunrise by eight again. Within one day the eight are equal; across the year they are not. In Delhi a daytime choghadiya runs 1 h 45 m at the June solstice and 1 h 17 m at the December one, while the night ones move the opposite way.
Which name lands first is fixed by the weekday, and the rest follow in order. Both columns below are read off our own engine, not copied from a table:
| weekday | first of the day | first of the night |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | Udveg | Shubh |
| Monday | Amrit | Char |
| Tuesday | Rog | Kaal |
| Wednesday | Labh | Udveg |
| Thursday | Shubh | Amrit |
| Friday | Char | Rog |
| Saturday | Kaal | Labh |
The day walks the ring Udveg, Char, Labh, Amrit, Kaal, Shubh, Rog one step at a time. The night walks the same ring backwards, two at a time, which is why the night is not the day list started from a different place, and why any table you already keep is worth checking on both rows.
That relation is arithmetic, but the night order it describes is a choice, and we should say so rather than let the neatness imply inevitability. We follow the night sequence used by common North-Indian panchangs, and ours agrees row for row with Drik Panchang's published day and night tables, which is what we checked it against. A different night order has been published elsewhere and attributed to Brihad Jyotish Saar. We are not in a position to adjudicate between them, and a table that cannot cite chapter and verse should not present itself as the only one. If your family or your local panchang uses a different night order, it is not necessarily disagreeing with the arithmetic; it may be starting from a different convention.
This is also why the answer cannot be a fixed timetable. Delhi and Sydney get the same eight names in the same order on the same Monday, at completely different clock times, because their days begin at different moments and run to different lengths.
| name | traditionally |
|---|---|
| Amrit | the most favourable of the eight |
| Shubh | favourable |
| Labh | favourable, named for gain |
| Char | neutral here, counted good by some; traditionally the one chosen for travel |
| Udveg | avoided |
| Kaal | avoided |
| Rog | avoided |
Whether that is three favourable or four is unsettled: Drik Panchang labels Char "Neutral" in its table and calls four choghadiya good in its prose. We show it neutral, and that is a choice rather than a fact.
One wider limit applies to this whole section. Choghadiya reaches us through muhurta and panchang literature rather than the horoscopic classics, and it is not in Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, so we cannot give chapter and verse for the sequence or the classification the way the sources page does for the texts behind a chart. Read the above as the convention as practised, not as a sourced claim.
What the sunrise has to be right about
Everything rests on one number, and it is the one most often got wrong. Sunrise is not 6 a.m. and it is not the same across a country: on 13 September 2026 our engine puts Kolkata's at 05:23 and Mumbai's at 06:26, 63 minutes apart, because India runs one clock across roughly thirty degrees of longitude. A choghadiya table computed for "India" is wrong for almost everybody in it.
So the times above come from the real sunrise and sunset at the coordinates of the city you picked, computed by the Swiss Ephemeris: the same engine and settings behind every chart on this site. The methodology page names the version, the data files and the corrections we have had to make.
Two limits worth stating plainly:
| limit | how big |
|---|---|
| We use the city centroid, not your street | Delhi spans 48 km east to west, or 0.49° of longitude, so its eastern edge sees sunrise about two minutes before its western. At the edges the error is a minute or so, not seconds. |
| Sunrise means upper limb, standard refraction | The astronomical convention, computed at a standard atmosphere of 1013.25 mbar and 15 °C. It is not the only one in use: Swiss Ephemeris also offers a Hindu-calendar mode using the sun's centre without refraction, and Drik Panchang states plainly that panchang makers disagree before choosing upper limb itself. Traditions timing choghadiya from another definition will differ from us by a couple of minutes for that reason, not because either is miscalculated. |
Choghadiya is also the coarsest of the timing systems. It asks nothing about the moon, which is why sunrise and sunset are the whole of its input, and why anyone choosing a wedding date looks at the nakshatra and the tithi rather than stopping here.
What this tool does not do
Two things the better panchang sites do and this does not, said here rather than left for you to find:
| not here | what that means for you |
|---|---|
| Vaar Vela, Kaal Vela and Kaal Ratri | Three further inauspicious stretches marked by the major panchangs, the first two within the day and Kaal Ratri at night. Drik Panchang computes all three. If your practice uses them, this table is incomplete for you. |
| Any day but today | There is no date picker yet, so it cannot tell you next Tuesday's. |
Both are on the list, and neither is a disagreement about the tradition.
What it is not
Choghadiya is a convention about time, not a claim about outcomes. The traditional reading is that Amrit and Shubh are good stretches to begin something and Kaal and Rog are not. Our position is that we can tell you accurately what the tradition says and when the periods fall, and cannot tell you that beginning a journey in Rog will harm you.
Nothing here should decide something that matters medically, legally or financially. For choosing a time for a ceremony this is the common reference; for choosing whether to seek treatment it is not.
The calculation runs on our own engine and the page shows what it returns. If the engine does not answer, the page says so and shows nothing rather than substituting an approximation. A tool that quietly falls back to an estimate is the same failure as an ephemeris quietly falling back, which this site has shipped once and written up in its own correction history.